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February 8, 2014 Ensenada, Mexico Part 3

Saturday found us taking a tour of the Estero Beach Museum here at the Estero Beach Hotel and Resort near our campground.  The resort provided us with an English speaking guide and the collection of over 400 years of Mexican history and culture accumulated by the owner of the resort was amazing.  01-P1040120 02-P1040121 03-P1040122 05-P1040124 06-P1040125 09-P1040128

Saturday afternoon we drove into Ensenada to Walmart and Costco.  I expected Walmart to look like the Walmarts in the United States.  It was small and crowded with merchandise like washers and other appliances flip flops and clothes crowding the aisles.  The food selection was limited and I had trouble trying to read the labels.  I thought I would be able to figure out what items were by the pictures alone, but I was sadly mistaken.  Besides being in Spanish, the pictures look different.  The selection of frozen food such as vegetables and tv dinners was very limited or not available.  To my dismay they do not have Diet Coke in Mexico, but instead they have Coke Light which I did not care for.  No Diet Coke, no Breyers ice cream…..WAWAAAA  🙂  In the meat department they had a huge bin of fresh chicken legs cut up and you just got a bag and selected your fresh chicken.  The bin was huge…like what they put watermelons in at the store.  I really wanted to take a picture but I was afraid they might get upset if I started snapping pictures.  Between not being able to read the aisle signs and labels, shopping was a little frustrating.  I was uncomfortable buying meat because I didn’t understand the labels and I wasn’t sure what I was really buying.  It took 4 Walmart clerks to understand I wanted frozen chicken.  I knew pollo was chicken but I didn’t know the word for frozen and Bill was in another part of the store with the spanish/english dictionary!

Next we went to Costco which was exactly like the one in the United States.  You would not know you were in Mexico if it wasn’t for the signs in Spanish.  They were even giving out samples of cheesecake and beef and sausage.  Or at least I think it was beef and sausage!!

On the way home we stopped and had lunch at a little taco stand that had been recommended to us by a hotel employee at the campground.  Bill and our friends had fish and shrimp tacos which they said they were better than the ones we got down at the fish market. 13-IMG_20140208_135648

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The day ended with more fun and cheer at Happy Hour!